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Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: Arthur Miller, Nobel Peace Prize and The British Gazette
...Longshoreman Eddie Carbone is the main character in which Arthur Miller play? Which writer and feminist was the mother of the politician Shirley Williams?...
June 30, 2023
The Week Ahead
Russian elections and St Patrick’s Day celebrations
...countries will get their annual moment in the sun — or perhaps rain, given that the gathering is in London in the spring — with a service in Westminster Abbey on Monday, due to be attended by Queen Camilla and William...
March 10, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
US economy
When presidents lean on Fed chairs, everybody loses
...Conversations from the Nixon tapes in the run-up to the 1972 election (which Nixon won) show him pressuring Fed chair Arthur Burns to reduce rates....
November 15, 2023
ReviewDance
BalletBoyz’ England on Fire is chaotic but intermittently beguiling — review
...Browsing the National Theatre’s bookshop last summer, Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, joint artistic directors of BalletBoyz, spotted England on Fire....
November 10, 2023
Golf
ESPN nears broadcast deal with Tiger Woods’ golf league
...The format has already received backing from Fenway Sports Group, hedge fund titan Steve Cohen, Home Depot founder Arthur Blank, and Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian, each of whom have purchased a team...
September 28, 2023
FT Magazine
Bernard Cornwell’s fantasy dinner: Joanna Lumley charms the First Duke of Wellington
...His Grace the First Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, unceremoniously resurrected from his tomb in St Paul’s Cathedral and from thence to a hotel’s private dining room in Covent Garden, will be aghast...
September 30, 2023
FT Live
The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition
FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government
Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
Investments
Investors’ Chronicle: Oxford Metrics, N Brown, Celadon Pharmaceuticals
...BUY: Oxford Metrics (OMG) The 3D sensing software company wants to more than treble its revenue in next five years, writes Arthur Sants....
June 9, 2023
FT GlobetrotterFT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s on in our cities
Melbourne in 2024: FT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s happening
...Jessica Arthur directs....
February 5, 2024
Art Basel Miami Beach 2023
Artist Ron Nagle: ‘Humour is my best gift. It’s what comes to me most naturally’
...The humble still lifes of Giorgio Morandi have always been important to him, as has the painting of Philip Guston, Arthur Dove and Édouard Vuillard....
November 24, 2023
ReviewFiction
The Fraud — Zadie Smith’s tremendous take on the historical novel
...The Fraud is Smith’s first historical novel, taking as its inspiration a trial that commanded public attention and provoked riots in the street: that of Arthur Orton aka Roger Tichborne aka Thomas Castro...
August 31, 2023
Donald Trump
Trump confronts New York fraud claims on first day of trial
...The judge presiding over the trial, Arthur Engoron, last week ruled that Trump and his fellow co-defendants had for years committed persistent fraud by inflating the value of his assets....
October 2, 2023
Stefan Stern
The secret to good management? Paying attention
...The psychologist and philosopher William James argued that “the deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated”....
September 11, 2023
Investments
Directors’ Deals: Bosses sell Frontier shares
...Its board is stuffed with corporate luminaries including ex-Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy, former Saatchi & Saatchi boss Robert Senior and William Currie Group founder Bill Currie....
November 25, 2022
The Week Ahead
A first for King Charles while Trump takes the stand
...Judge Arthur Engoron has already found that the former president and his adult sons, Donald Jr and Eric, inflated their wealth by as much as $2.2bn in order to secure loans for their family business on advantageous...
November 5, 2023
ReviewFiction
The House of Doors — adultery and intrigue in 1920s colonial Malaya
...visit to Kuala Lumpur in 1921 that the lawyer EAS Wagner told Maugham of the notorious case 10 years earlier, in which he’d defended Ethel Proudlock, the wife of a local schoolmaster, accused of murdering William...
May 4, 2023
FT Live
Financial Advice Forum
Optimising client centric advice in uncertain times
Tuesday, 24 September8-14 Cooper's Row, London EC3N 2BQ, UK
The Art of FashionThe Art of Fashion: the Literary issue
Author Ned Beauman: ‘If I’m out I’m wearing Rick Owens’
...A science fiction fan as a child (William Gibson is an influence), Beauman associates his love of Owens with the sense of discovery that comes from fresh immersion in an imagined literary world....
August 22, 2023
UnhedgedEthan Wu
The Fed isn’t done breaking things Premium content
...The late economist John Henry Williams, as quoted last week by New York Fed president John Williams, wrote in 1931 that R-star is “an abstraction; like faith, it is seen by its works”....
May 25, 2023
ReviewHistory books
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses — of silkworms and spider webs
...Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses, by Aarathi Prasad, William Collins £20, 368 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
June 27, 2023
Private equity
Is private equity actually worth it?
...Even one of the overarching review studies that NBIM itself cites — Risk And Return in Private Equity by the University of Southern California’s Arthur Korteweg — indicates that “when additional risk factors...
March 5, 2024
Interiors
Movers and makers: the highlights of London Craft Week
...Kate Williams’ playful quilts depict imagined architectural forms which reference 1980s postmodernism and Surrealist paintings by Giorgio de Chirico....
May 7, 2023
Serena Williams
Curtain comes down on career of Serena Williams with US Open defeat
...Williams fell to Ajla Tomljanović, 5-7, 7-6, 1-6 during their evening match at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York, before a delirious crowd that came to bid farewell to the 23-time Grand Slam champion....
September 3, 2022
InterviewFilm
Inside the Chelsea Hotel: ‘It has always been a mirror of what is happening outside’
...Arthur C Clarke worked on the screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), sometimes chatting in a nearby laundromat with Arthur Miller, who wrote After the Fall (1964) during his six-year stay....
January 17, 2023
ReviewHistory books
Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings — the rise and fall of kingdoms
...“the Nazareth of the Arthur legend”....
September 27, 2022
Person in the News
Serena Williams, a tennis superstar bows out
...If Arthur Ashe Stadium is the world’s largest cathedral to tennis, then this week nearly every sermon has been about the end of the Williams era....
September 2, 2022
HTSIInside 15 extraordinary homes
The secrets of the house of Harlech
...The 5,000-acre estate originally belonged to a branch of the Wynn family, and the present house was built for William and Kathryn Wynn in 1616....
September 8, 2023

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